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The Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management offers a 4-year bachelor of science degree in hospitality and tourism management.
HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT
The four-year undergraduate program has a competency component, core hospitality and tourism management requirements, as well as free electives. The HTM curriculum for the bachelor of science degree is designed to give the student a flavor of the following:
- Competencies: math, science, oral & written communication, social & behavioral sciences, ethics,technology, culture & diversity, criteria thinking, and aesthetics.
- Broad Hospitality Management: accounting, marketing, introductions to lodging/foodservice/tourism, human resource management, law, etc.
- Free electives : recognized minors outside Hospitality and Tourism Management, entrepreneurship certificate, concentrations in specific areas, additional hospitality and tourism management courses, etc.
A 400 hour hospitality and tourism management internship is required in the program. Students can obtain their internship through their own search or in the Hospitality and Tourism Management Career Center. In their senior year, students take a capstone course which pulls all the hospitality management knowledge together as the class works in groups to make plans to build a hospitality business — from selecting a location site to a final operating establishment.
Strengths of the hospitality and tourism management program at Purdue are:
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